The ones in the Sabadeco area and along the dirt road to Rincon, north of Sabadeco were at their peak all day yesterday.
The trees on the hills to the east of Antriol, and the trees around Goto Lake and in Washington park were still dormant.
I'm always trying to figure out how to get a different kind of image of kibrahacha trees blooming, 'cause the same trees bloom every year. I've got pictures from most every year since 2004. You can do a search on this blog to see them. Someone, maybe my nephew Dan, or maybe Doug Britton, once suggested doing a full moon Kibrahacha picture. Well, the moon was just full on Wednesday afternoon, so i zoomed out about 10pm. Thursday night to have a try. I lit the tree with our pickup's headlights, so i could focus, then killed the lights and took the shot. Here is the result.
This is a 20 second exposure. The clouds moved some during the exposure, as did some of the colorful kibrahacha branches. If you click on the picture to see the larger size version, you should be able to see stars in the sky. I used the daylight white balance setting in the camera and did not tweak the colors in Photoshop. As Chuck Roswell once commented, moonlight is reflected sunlight, so it makes sense that the colors will come out pretty well. The clouds are a teeny bit reddish, which could be reflected light from Bonaire.
I was browsing my picture folders on my photo archive hard drive and noticed that the Kibrahacha tree events, and hence the weather here on Bonaire, has some clear patterns. Kibrahachas only bloom when there is a long dry spell, followed by a good rain.
Here are some dates, based on a quick search of my blog posts.
May 24 and Aug 28 2004
April 20 and June 12 2006
April 27 and June 17 2007
July 03 2008
July 13 2009
April 12 2010
April 19, 2011
April 19 and May 10 2012May 01 and May 10 and Aug 02 2013
May 15 2014
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